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The Option of War

by: Nick Fox-Gieg

Publication date: 2005
Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0
Topics: nick, nicholas, foxgieg, fox-gieg, fox, gieg, animation, calarts
Item Size: 9.8G

In this adaptation of an early Kafka story, a soldier is taken prisoner in the night by a pack of jackals. Offering a pair of scissors, they demand that he use the makeshift weapon to kill his sleeping friends. They overwhelm his initial, shocked refusal. Slowly, incredibly, he begins to see their point of view. He takes the scissors, and...